A WEEKLY TORAH THOUGHT FROM RABBI MORDY This week’s Parsha, Ki Sissa, should really be pronounced Ki Seesaw for all of its ups and downs. Let’s give a little background. The Jewish people overcame a superpower in fleeing slavery in Egypt. Moses leads them through a miraculously split sea and, after winning a war along the way, they arrive at… Read More
A WEEKLY TORAH THOUGHT FROM RABBI MORDY This week’s Parsha is a rough one. It should have been simply a purely positive and momentous event on the Jewish calendar – the giving of the Torah – with its culmination in Moses’s returning to them with the entire backstory if you will. Instead, what took place was a grave error and… Read More
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Friendship Circle Tribute Book 2023September 12, 2025
A WEEKLY TORAH THOUGHT BY RABBI MORDY This week’s Parsha (Ki Tavo) continues with commandments relating to residing in the Land of Israel and laws relating to the first fruits that the Jewish people are instructed to bring to the Temple. After a series of laws, the Torah then repeats something we read in the earlier Books (as was with… Read More
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A WEEKLY TORAH THOUGHT BY RABBI MORDY This week’s Parsha (Ki Teitzei) is chock full of Mitzvot, 74 in all! One of the many that I would like to focus on is both seriously practical, and also serves as a deeper lesson. We are commanded to “erect a fence around your roofs.” (Okay, admittedly I like this one because our… Read More
